German packaging firm Multivac has launched a vacuum chamber equipment for the packaging long food products such as cylindrical sausages and certain varieties of whole fish.
Equipped with a 1.4m-wide chamber, the C 800 vacuum chamber machine is the largest single-chamber machine in Multivac's product range.
Multivac's chamber machines business unit manager Ingo Renner was quoted by Foodproductiondaily.com as saying that the new equipment has been designed in response to current trends in meat processing industry.
The company's customers are seeking for long chambers of up to 1.4m in width in order to package the extra-long sausages, Renner added.
The C 800 is wider than the next model in Multivac's portfolio, the C 500. However, the C 800 offers all the benefits of the C 500 such as reliability and precision, hygienic design with stainless steel construction, high production speed and packaging security and flexibility.
In addition, it also offers automatic progressive ventilation, ensuring sharp pointed products do not destruct the film pouch during ventilation.
Multivac is set to showcase the new equipment at the trade show IFFA, which is scheduled to be held from 4 to 9 May 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany.
